The lifeblood of business is data, and business stakeholders need at least a basic understanding of how their IT teams use and manage that data. There are three keys to understanding master data: what ...

Master Data Management (MDM) helps retailers consolidate different views into one, ensuring data is accurate, consistent and complete across all systems.

Inaccurate and/or erroneous data entry prohibits the benefits from cross-functional processes flows sought in environments like build-to-order manufacturing for example. Master Data Management ...

For example, customer 360 platforms (sometimes called customer data platforms) specialize in storing customer data, and product information management systems are specific to product information.

SOA has a critical role to play in the development of Master Data Management, or MDM. At Pfizer, SOA decoupled data from applications I hadn't heard much to date on how these two enterprise ...

Master Data Management is a practice adopted when a company really gets serious about making use of its data. Based on recent trends and some emerging analyst research, it seems that when ...

Verato, the identity experts for healthcare, today launches the Verato Universal Identity™ platform, the industry’s first hMDM: the next generation of master ...

Master files contain descriptive data, such as name and address, as well as summary information, such as amount due and year-to-date sales. Contrast with transaction file. See master data management.